MinTTY 0.3.3

[Andrew DeFaria]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> What is the native Windows look and feel other than the Window frame? 
> - scrollbar
> - right-click menu (also reachable via menu key)
> - options dialog, with font and colour selectors
> - copy&paste behaviour (copy-on-demand, Ctrl-Ins copies, shift-left 
> click extends)
> - drag&drop
OK. None of this is particularly important... to me..
>>> and the options dialog (which among other things allows you to 
>>>  configure it in an Xish way).
>> What could be more Xish then X Resources, which rxvt pays total 
>> attention to?
> That point wasn't about rxvt. I was just saying that you're not stuck 
> with Windows-style behaviour in MinTTY. (Btw, the options dialog isn't 
> compulsory either; MinTTY can be configured via .minttyrc, although 
> that's in need of documentation.)
My point is that rxvt pays attention to .Xdefaults which is very Xish IMHO.
>>> And just a little helping of eye candy: - Window transparency (which 
>>> can be disabled when the window is active).
>> There's transparency with rxvt too. Try -ip.
> From the manpage:
>   -ip|+ip Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap.
>           Alternative is -tr; resource inheritPixmap.
>
> Now I don't really understand what that's supposed to mean, but I'm 
> pretty sure it's not proper alpha blending. In any case, all that 
> option achieves on my Vista machine is to make window moves and 
> resizes very slow.
Oh I didn't say it was the best thing since sliced bread, just that rxvt 
does transparency of a sort too.
>>> - Fullscreen mode.
>> My rxvt maximizes. What you mean there's still a window frame? 
>> Doesn't bother me. And the amount of times when I really want to 
>> waste all of my screen real estate on one window can be counted on 
>> one hand...
> Different people, different preferences. MinTTY inherited that feature 
> from PuTTY, and I didn't see any reason to remove it. Actually I 
> rather like fullscreen mode, not so much for the extra space as for 
> the removal of any visual distractions.
Indeed, different strokes for different folks.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Why do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight?


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